Nothing in my 25 years of teaching architecture prepared me for what I experienced in my AI studio this semester. The ...

Castles are usually treated as historical objects, yet in Poland they are actively built, expanded, and reconstructed today, ...

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R obert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto, was published by the Museum of Modern Art ...

It may shock some people to hear this, but architecture is not urban planning. It is not transportation planning, sociology, political science, or critical geography. However, architecture, new-build ...

The reaction to Donald Trump’s proposal to build a new ballroom connected to the east side of the White House has been heated and hostile—a quality it shares with just about every other attempt ...

Every city needs someone to observe it, sketch it, master its history, and insist that its strengths be defended and reinforced. Sometimes the person who plays this role comes from the other side of ...

Back in 1990, I was asked if I would take the job as director of housing and economic development for Trenton, in a new administration with a seemingly dedicated bright young mayor. I did, and I spent ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Nicholas Lemann wrote the first widely read book about the “Great Migration”—the movement between 1916 and 1970 of more than 6 million African Americans from poverty and ...

In case you missed it, our world continues, after two years, to suffer cultural spasms in response to unseen, unrelenting, and deadly infective agents that continue to wash over entire populations, ...

I remember the Before Times. It’s different now. On September 27, the remnants of Hurricane Helene turned Asheville, N.C., into a post-apocalyptic landscape: fallen trees blocking streets; roads ...

How did modern architecture happen? How did we evolve so quickly from architecture that had ornament and detail, to buildings that were often blank and devoid of detail? Why did the look and feel of ...